Suffering & Affliction

Clearing the Road to Heaven

Isaiah 62:10

… I wonder not, I say, that they refuse the comforts which we offer them, for it is one of the effects and symptoms of great sickness that the …

Psalm 55

Psalm 55

… He gives thee thy portion of suffering, accept it with cheerful resignation, and then take it back to him by thine assured confidence. He shall sustain thee. Thy …

Faith Omnipotent

Mark 9:23

… my guilt, that they may with me admire the riches of Divine long-suffering." This is how faith learns to deal with sin—to make it a foil …

Prayer 1 — Help from On High

… The furnace of affliction grows cool when Thou art there and the house of prayer, when Thou art present, is none other than the house of God and …

Salvation by Grace

Ephesians 2:5

… of God and I heard my minister exhort me to be patient in sickness, to love my God and my neighbor, and I tried to do my best …

Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?

… from the arm of Christ’s Church, and to bear any amount of suffering ourselves, so long as the Church itself might escape and live. Would not any …

The Sinner's End

Psalm 73:17

… Even now, when you feel a little sickness you are afraid to die, and when you hear a heart-searching sermon, it makes you melancholy. But what will …

The Test of Taste

1 Peter 2:3

… In our work or suffering, in our joys or sorrows, in our meditations or praises we have tasted that the Lord is gracious. There is no getting this …

A Visit to Bethlehem

Luke 2:15

… in His cradle, after a few short years was so overwhelmed with anxiety, suffering and anguish, that His visage was more marred than that of any other man …

Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts

Mark 3:5

… The fire of affliction has not softened their iron nature. Why should they be stricken any more? They will revolt more and more. The Lord himself cries, "O …

Life More Abundant

John 10:10

… Christians should have such abundant life that their circumstances should not be able to overcome them—such abundant life that in poverty they are rich, in sickness they …

Beware of Unbelief

2 Kings 7:2

… How rich in mercy is the Lord our God! Sin must be multiplied exceedingly ere his long suffering ceases; he is unwilling to execute the sentence of his …

Free Pardon

Isaiah 43:25

… We must know that we are sick and we must distinctly recognize that our sickness is a mortal disease, or else we shall never value the Divine Medicine …

Lecture IV: Where Can We Find Anecdotes And Illustrations?

… from the arm of Christ's church, and to bear any amount of suffering ourselves, so long as the church itself might escape and live. Would not any …

Love's Lamentation

Malachi 1:2

… You are not suffering pain—the blood leaps in your veins, you are in robust and vigorous health, yet, alas—you are spending that strength in sin! Your …

Confession of Sin—A Sermon With Seven Texts

Exodus 9:27

… You said, on a bed of sickness, that if he would spare your life you would never again sin as you did before; but here you are, and …

Why the Gospel Is Hidden

2 Corinthians 4:3

… Trust in Him as suffering as a Substitute in your place and you shall be saved." Can anything be more simple than that? We try to use the …

Sounding Out the Word of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 1:8

… This enabled them to bear with patience their suffering for Christ—whether it lay in false accusation, or in the spoiling of their goods. Of them it could …

Memorable Services at the Tabernacle, 1861-1874

… A sad period of suffering ensued, and one day he said, “Wifey, we will never do that again; it will be better, in future, patiently to wait for …

Dangerous Lingering

Genesis 19:16

… Occasionally, and very occasionally, persons have been decided by personal sickness. Some, but oh, how few, have witnessed the good confession in the hour of death. A soldier …

A Family Sermon

Genesis 7:1

… So long as the door was open whoever came was welcome, but long-suffering was drawing to an end. The time was now come for Noah to go …

The Memory Of Christ's Love

Solomon 1:4

… take those ashes from your head, you that are sighing by reason of affliction! Come, unbind that sackcloth, and throw it aside, you that have lost fellowship with …

Love's Complaining

Rev 2:4

… But this church at Ephesus was not only laborious, it was patient in suffering great persecution. He says of it: "I know thy works and thy patience, and …

The Top of the Ladder

Ephesians 3:19

… our hunger; cleansing for our defilement; garments for our nakedness; healing for our sickness. He gives us strength for our weakness, joy for our sorrow, comfort for our …

The Three Hours' Darkness

Matthew 27:45

… It was the fact of Christ coming in human flesh and suffering for man which was the answer to the world's great riddle. The world's riddle …

Laboring And Not Fainting

Revelation 2:3

… But He notes also, with joy, what she can bear—toilsome labor, abundant self-denial, reproach for His sake, persecution and suffering even unto blood. In this He …

Covenant Blessings

Psalm 111:5

… But there are others of you who have been brought so low by poverty and affliction that you are qualified to speak in a still more emphatic fashion …

Impotence and Omnipotence

John 5:5-9

… What a long time to be afflicted—38 years! Have we not with us at this time some who have been afflicted with the soul-sickness of sin …

Meat Indeed, and Drink Indeed

John 6:55

… The soul is not to be sustained without considering and resting on the substitutionary suffering of Jesus. That Jesus died in my place and suffered for my sin …

Self-righteousness—a Smoldering Heap of Rubbish

Isaiah 65:5

… Its medicines are not for those upon whom the sickness of sin has never come, for, "the whole have no need of a physician, but they that are …

Sowing and Reaping

Galatians 6:7

… Fourthly, "long-suffering"—patience under provocation. Fifthly, "gentleness"—consideration for others, readiness to help them in any way that we can. Sixthly, "goodness"—not any holiness of which …

Fountains of Repentant Tears

Mark 14:72

… the ground." And among the three who constituted the innermost bodyguard of their suffering King was Peter. Yet, with the memories of Tabor and Gethsemane upon him, he …

Conversions Encouraged

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

… some time? Does your weakness increase upon you? Are you apprehensive that this sickness may even be unto death? When you are in such tribulation, then you may …

Even Now

John 11:22

… I have been very patient and long-suffering. I have tried to induce my beloved one to go and listen to the Gospel here and there. I have …

The Lamb—The Light

Revelation 21:23

… Health, too—who can prize it enough? When stretched upon the bed of sickness—then we begin to know how priceless a gift was a sound body! But …

The Great Need—Or, The Great Salvation

Isaiah 48:18

… Come night, come day, come sickness, come health, come what will—this peace which passes all understanding will keep the Christian's heart and mind, through Jesus Christ …

'Christ Is All'

Colossians 3:11

… world for the purpose of our salvation! He lived a life of suffering and trial and, at last, through the malignity of His enemies, was crucified on Calvary …

The Bond of the Covenant

Ezekiel 20:34-38

… Despondency, sickness, bereavement, loss and even temporal death may fall upon the chosen as visitations of God to deliver them from the power of Satan! So, you see …

Paul's Persuasion

Romans 8:38

… God's Long-suffering— An Appeal to the Conscience"] I spoke, in the middle of the sermon, as if personally addressing someone who was present, who had lately …

Shining Christians

Isaiah 60:1

… Forever adored be His long-suffering and His tender mercy. 11. For as the Heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that …